When Your Family Physician Taps Your Left Patellar Tendon with a Mallet

question 50

Multiple Choice

When your family physician taps your left patellar tendon with a mallet, motor neurons innervating the flexors of the left knee are inhibited by _______ in the _______.

• A) interneurons; spinal cord
• B) interneurons; muscle
• C) interneurons; tendon
• D) sensory neurons; muscle

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Definitions:

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